Joomla, one of the most popular PHP CMS, has been used by tons of websites. It is very customizable and extendable through various plugins. Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites and etc.
Back to few months ago, we showcase beautiful Wordpress blogs. Some readers ask me to collect beautiful Joomla designs, as not everyone use Wordpress as their CMS. So, we decided to collect cool Joomla designs over the world and present to our readers.
If you are a Joomla designer and are scratching your head for a new Joomla design, then you had reached to the right place. Today, we are going to share 44 beautiful Joomla designs that may inspired you.
omy.sg is Singapore’s bilingual news and interactive web portal leading by media group Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.
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Often when designers are creating new web pages, they rely on the design of the elements within a page. Banners have to look pleasant; navigation buttons have to be consistent and so on. But when these elements are placed together within a page, they create dynamics that attract user attention. The study on user attraction, or attentiveness, is a part of what is called usability – a guide on how to assess purposefulness of a user interface.
That is why you might notice that the most popular websites like Google and Facebook have minimalistic designs and there is a good reason for such approach.
Less Is More
There is a common saying amongst designers and developers alike – Keep It Simple and stupid. A webpage that sells shampoos to customers should only have the necessary webpages to sell that particular product and not anything else. Users don’t need to know the size of the bottle or even what colour of the shampoo would be.
When things are kept simple, users get to do tasks quickly and when they do, they will appreciate and come back to your website again.
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In the previous post, we showcase 50 creative portfolios and soon there are readers who request us to share beautiful blog designs. A great portfolio will attract more clients to a designer while great blog design will bring you more visitors too.
Although content is king, but with a unique and awesome blog design, you can attract visitors and catch their attentions. So I would say beautiful blog design together with good content will definitely bring your blog stand out from the crowd.
Since most of us use Wordpress as our blogging platform, we decided to list out 40+ really awesome and beautiful blogs powered by Wordpress. We will see blogs from other platforms in the future.
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There are more and more online stores within the internet. You can build an online shopping cart easily by using open source ecommerce shopping cart solution. After all, you just need to customize the look and feel of the website.
One of the famous open source ecommerce shopping cart software is Magento, and we had covered magento template in our previous post. A well designed online shopping cart will certainly bring you more revenue. So, it is advised that you put more efforts in your shopping cart’s design.
Today, we are going to look into 30+ well designed online shopping carts. We try not to cover those famous ecommerce websites such as Amazon and Ebay. The intention of this article is to share some simple and well design ecommerce websites with our readers.
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Photoshop is an excellent application for web designers. No matter you are beginner of expert of Photoshop, you can easily get tutorials and resources by using the search engine.
Most of the theme developers/designers will done their website design using Photoshop, and then slice and convert them into CSS/HTML template. Here, i had collected 30+ easy to follow Photoshop layout design tutorials. You can follow them step by step to learn how to create a website layout design by using Photoshop.
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